Harness-hook



(No Model.) I

J. WAGNER;

HARNESS HOOK.

No. 310,235. Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS IVAGNER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

HARNESS-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,235, dated January 5, 1885.

Application filed September 10, 1884.

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ULIUS WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Check-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to all styles of harness-saddle terrets, and is applicable to both the check-hooks and ring-terrets of the same, I reserving the latter for a future application.

The object of the improvement is to give case to the harnessed animal and a cheap construction ofthe hook. This object is attained in theuse of the improvement shown in the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters indicate similar parts.

Figure l is an elevation of a check-hook of the usual style having my prior improvement thereon. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same check-hook with the subsequent and completed improvement attached thereto. Fig. 3 is a detail of an alternative roller.

A represents the lower arm of the checkhook; A, the upper arm or keeper; A, the check-hook guard; A, seat for roller-base; B, the bolt for securing to harness-saddle; B, screw-thread; B nut; G, spindle cast or formed integral with the body of the checkhook; D, roller or anti-friction device; H, alternative roller in halves; I, rings for securing the halved roller in place.

The effect of the ordinary check-hook attachment upon the animal is restrictive, and each movement of the animals head to the right or left ismade by an effort first exerted upon the bridle-rein to move or slide it upon the check-hook, which, being small in diameter, usually kinks the rein, so that considerable strain is thrown upon the animals neck before movement is to any great extent pos: sible.

The improved terret check-hook permits instantaneous, free, and unlimited movement of the animals head on a horizontal plane without any strain being thrown upon the same. 7

The construction of the terrets, both ring and check-hook, is as follows: At about the point of attachment of the bridle-rein, or the frictional point of the lines within the interior surface of the rings, the body of the ring (No model.)

or check-hook terrets is compressed or reduced to the form of a spindle of uniform diameter, said spindle being so arranged relative to the inner surface of the ring or hook terrets that the anti-friction rollers shall about preserve the contour of the interior surfaces of the same. Seats A are formed to give vertical support to and a wearing-base for the rollers. After tumbling and annealing the check-hooks they are placed insuitably-prepared flasks and the rollers D cast thereon, thus making a cheap and permanent attachment of the antifriction rollers to the eheck-hooks.

The rollers may be molded upon the cheekhooks in celluloid, rubber, or equivalent material, and subsequently hardened or vulcanized; or they may be constructed iuhalves and secured in place upon the spindles by rings 1; but I prefer to cast them of metal directly upon the spindles formed upon the check-hooks.

I am aware that I am not the first to make use of anti-friction devices in combination with terret check-hooks; but I believe that my mode of constructing the same is a novel, useful, and cheap and effective mode of manufacturing the same. I make no claim to the rollers per se, but to my placing of the same upon the spindles in the manner described, and thus saving machine-work upon the same.

Having described my improvement and shown its use and advantages, I desire to secure by Letters Patent the following claims thereon:

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a terret-hook for a harnesssaddle, pro vided with keeper A, guard A, spindle G,and seats A", cast or formed integral with the body of said hook, in combination with the harnesssaddle by the usual bolt and nut, B B sulr stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a terret-hook for a harness-saddle, provided with keeper A, guard A", spindle C, and seat A cast or formed integral with the body of said hook, in combination with an anti-friction roller, D, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JULIUS WAGNER.

IVitn esses:

THOMAS P. KINSEY, F. PIERCE HUMMEL. 

